I’m sure Glenn Beck would have mentioned it!
While Republicans are quick to pounce on any proposals to raise taxes as a means of stimulating the economy, a new study finds that the U.S. collects a smaller share in taxes than most developed countries.
A look at 2010 data reveals that the U.S. is one of the least taxed countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), according to a study released Monday by Citizens For Tax Justice.
Those other countries are all Socialists. They have medical care for their sick and injured, education for their children, and they feed their seniors. Who would want to live like that?
Woo woo, freeeeedumb!
Martigan, I know. Right?
I once tried to figure out what US per capita costs are if you figure in the medical, educational, etc., costs that are taken care of (so far, anyway) in those horrible socialist countries.
Their total tax rates range from around 30% (Japan, 33%; Australia: 28%) to around 45% (Norway: 47%; Denmark: around 45%?). That includes all taxes: VAT, corporate, property, income, all taxes from whatever source.
In the US, if you add in our costs for the services we don’t get, our per capita costs are around 65%. (Which, since some people barely get schooling or medical care, means that others are paying an even higher proportion of their income.)
No wonder everybody feels strapped. It’s probably two things: Having the world’s largest military by a factor of over ten. The inefficiency of everybody duplicating effort to pay for their own little set of social services. It’s like we all have to have an individual sorta-kinda-mass-transit because Freeeedommm!
Anything any Republican says is a lie. Their newest lie is that the Social Security system will have a $77 billion dollar shortfall this year. That’s a big fat lie. They also say that between now and 2031 the SS system will have an $800 billion dollar shortfall. Another lie. The easiest way to tell when a Republican is lying is to watch their lips move. Or read anything that they’ve written.
Notice how the results of this (and any other study that points out the Emperor has no clothes) just never appears anywhere but in specialty publications. It’s why journalists are on my short list when the knives come out.